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Sometimes you fight and sometimes you even win. Coalition for Independent Tech Research sued the state department over a policy that weaponized immigration laws against content moderation researchers and won an injunction: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderationDisinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.arstechnica.com

Comparing the Trump administration's corruption to historical US precedents: reason.com/2026/07/09/t...

The most corrupt presidency in American history, by the numbersLooking back through the biggest scandals in American history through the lens of Trump 2.0.reason.com

The case for AI sovereignty is easier to make the more the Trump administration screws with Anthropic - my latest for Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Trump’s Anthropic spat has made the case for AI sovereigntyBans and threats against US companies will lead governments to develop their own tools, and they could use Chinese code to do itwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Conservatives like to argue that they're okay with immigration when people follow the rules. The ruling against TPS shows that's simply not true. I've sponsored and supported Haitian immigrants to come to the US under TPS - it's a rigorous and careful program. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

Opinion | This Decision Is a Slap in the Face to Immigrants Who Followed the Lawwww.nytimes.com

So proud of Dr. Ifat Gazia, my student and dear friend, who received a standing ovation for her keynote this morning at DiGRA 2026 (the Digital Games Research Association annual conference) in Ireland. Ifat's dissertation (defended late last year) is about digital erasure -

She said it, not me... :-)

A conversation with students at Sciences Po on why generative AI may inherently be a conservative technology: conference.sciencespo.fr/content/2026...

What does AI do to social media and information ? Interview with Ethan ZuckermanBienvenue sur le Memory de Conférenceconference.sciencespo.fr

Two spacetime aliens from Saguenay, QC are great arguments for Team Human in considering AI futures: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Angine de Poitrine: the alien rock band playing for Team HumanIn the war between artists and AI, weirdness may be humanity’s greatest assetwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Anil offers some very good reasons to ignore NYC "Tech Week" and, indeed, anything connected with Andreessen Horowitz

Fascinating @globalvoices.org story on the revival of part of the Aral Sea, one of the great environmental tragedies of the Soviet Union: globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...

How Kazakhstan resurrected the North Aral SeaThe North Aral is the only remaining heir to the once mighty and plentiful Aral Sea, deserving of every effort to save it - even without long-term assurances.globalvoices.org

"The loyal client" is a concept that's been important to our lab over the past five years as we've tried to make social media better: it's the idea that the tools you use to access social media should meet your needs, not those of the platform owner. Spencer Lane wrote a great paper on this as part

I have the cover story this month in Prospect, titled "Social Media in the Dock". It's an examination of recent court decisions in California and New Mexico and their implications. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

The social network in the dockLawsuits and bans threaten social media’s future. But the case that these platforms cause addiction and harm is far from provenwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Enjoyed this interview with InnovEU about the possibility of taxpayer-supported social media platforms and digital public infrastructure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_M7...

🎙️ InnovEU S5E8 with Ethan Zuckerman – Are Platforms Extracting Europe’s Future?YouTube video by Fernando C. Gasparwww.youtube.com

I sometimes read _Reason_ for smart thinking from a point of view well to the right of my own. Found this piece depressing and helpful, especially the argument that we both have "a very bad man in the presidency" as well as systemic problems with executive power: reason.com/2026/04/04/w...

Trump realized he can just do things. Who can stop him?There are far too few checks left on executive power.reason.com

My brilliant student Vik is working on a terrific article about rappers in India working in their local languages who are finding audiences across linguistic barriers. We got to talking about hiphop and locality, the ways in which early MCs fiercely defended the Bronx roots of the art form

An excellent overview of how AI deepfakes made Bangladesh's February elections deeply confusing: globalvoices.org/2026/04/01/h...

How artificial intelligence and synthetic reality shaped Bangladesh’s 2026 electionAn analysis of seventy-two pieces of AI-generated content, showed that AI was a powerful political weapon, and was used to manufacture false narratives and shape electoral outcomes ahead of Bangladesh...globalvoices.org

If you were looking for signs that there's an AI bubble, there's a pair of well-dressed twenty-somethings walking through the academic offices at UMass, offering donuts to professors and trying to get them to try their AI-enabled discussion board product. Too much marketing money.

Also in new writing today: this month's column for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, in which a brilliant student of mine and I figure out how AI can accelerate our research... which sometimes means doing dumb shit really fast: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Why artificial intelligence is no substitute for real learningAI can supercharge the work of experts and those who understand it, like my “centaur” student. But it can also stop beginners from learning anything a...www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Ryan McGrady (@antisomniac.bsky.social) and I just published a new paper about exploring the outer reaches of YouTube - randomly selected videos with only a few views - and the idea that these videos constitute an "accidental archive", a picture of online life and culture: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Falling deep down the Angine de Poitrine rabbit hole, starting with the KEXP video you've probably already seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXPwww.youtube.com